Pete Doherty says he's stepping up his battle with drug addiction in a new interview with Jonathan Ross to air on Ross's Friday night show this week, saying: "Being skint, drunk, paranoid, no, I don't wish that for myself. For the first time in my life I'm upping the stakes in my battle against it".
The singer went on to explain to Ross about his twice-weekly drug tests, before describing the effect that rehabilitation is having on his creative output, saying: "Being clean means I can sit down and rediscover writing. My song-writing suffered, being on drugs."
Doherty also said that he still loves supermodel Kate Moss, hinted that their relationship is "up and down" rather than completely over, but doesn't seem to hold out much hope, saying: "She's had enough, I think. I love her bones, I always will."
Asked about his relationship with the members of his former band The Libertines, who, of course, asked him to leave because of his drug addiction, he said: "I just became persona non grata, I got booted out, it was just exile - I suppose because of the drugs but really because I didn't want to tour. None of them talk to me. Carl... we were best friends, we loved what we did, we took it right to the end."